CVE-2008-3577

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in src/openttd.cpp in OpenTTD before 0.6.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a large filename supplied to the "-g" parameter in the ttd_main function. NOTE: it is unlikely that this issue would cross privilege boundaries in typical environments.

Affected products

openttd: 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.2.0, 0.2.1 (+42)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233929
http://secunia.com/advisories/34161
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-09.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=617243
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30525
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2285
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44436
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233929
http://secunia.com/advisories/34161
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-09.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=617243
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30525

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